Watch: Tony McGregor Posts Bizarre New Video Of Him Sailing Yacht

One of the twin pillars of Freud's Oedipus Complex is that to become a man, the son must kill his father - not in any literal sense - rather that to truly feel one has become an adult, they must supersede the role and societal position of their same-sex parent. Over the past six or so years, while, at first, Ireland and soon after, the rest of the world, were blinded by the spectacle of Conor McGregor's ascendant star, this could be said to have happened. He, through his wealth and fame became the most socially prominent and powerful member of their family. And, despite taking something of a professional hiatus since his extravagant exhibition bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. - with his public appearances since being limited to the occasional dalliance in the courts - this has remained the case.

Until this week that is.

This week, Tony McGregor has become the prime McGregor, the McGregor supreme. Tony McGregor has risen from his Oedipal death. He has been resurrected.

The resurrection of Tony McGregor came about - as all self-respecting resurrections ought - through the medium of a video he had filmed himself in his garden in which he raved about how he was 'none too plussed' about the inability of a Dart ticket machine to dispense anything other than copious amounts of 'coinage' in change. This one event, has had an unequivocally monumental impact upon Irish culture, it is epoch defining. It has spawned memes, and a, presumably, novelty GoFundMe page established with the intent of acquiring Tony McGregor a Leap Card so that he need not worry about the contours of his 'slim-fitted' Hugo Boss suit being sullied by the unsightly bulges of change.

To become the centre-piece of national discourse in so disparaging a fashion may have irked lesser man. The sudden glut of attention; the harsh glare of the spotlight's focus being turned on you, would surely have pierced the thin skin of most. However so unfazed is Tony McGregor by this sudden attention, that he has posted a video of himself aboard the 188 - the yacht his son purchased and named after the amount he was receiving weekly on the dole - speeding toward the Isle of Man, away from Ireland.

One can only hope that the transport infrastructure of the Isle Of Man is sufficiently advanced that it dispenses its ticket change in paper money form. If not, we await the video where Tony McGregor directs his ire, in all its vengeful fury, toward it.

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